Discover how your peers in national and community service are helping their communities with food distribution and nutrition education programs; also find research, curricula, and guidelines to support your efforts. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.

• Free Handouts for Nutrition Education
• Federal Food Programs

Effective practices

• Buying nutritional food on a limited budget
• Distributing perishable foods to low-income families
• Teaching nutrition and life-skills to adults with low incomes

Library items

• Eat My Words!: An Early Childhood Nutrition Education Curriculum
• Weighing In: Helping Girls Be Healthy Today, Healthy Tomorrow: Research Review
• Kids' Multicultural Cookbook: Food and Fun Around the World

Related websites

• Share Our Strength
• America's Second Harvest
• Team Nutrition: An initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service